Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-11

TALMAGE PICTURES THE OVER
THROW OF THE MONSTER.

Observance of the Easter Festival In the
Olden Time-ERster the Queen of the
Court of SabDRths-Death's PrepRra-
tionR to Conquer the World - Death
Onlythe Cloak Room to Heaven.
RooKLYN, April 1o.-To-day being
Easter Sunday the Tabernacle was pro.
fusely decorated with flowers. The pull
pit, the pillars, and the galleries were
one great garden of bloom. Prot. Browne,
the organist, and Prot. Ali, the cornetst,
rendered selections from Handel, Haydn
and Beethoven, appropriate to the day
celebrated. The subject OF DR.. Talmage's
discourse was, "The Overthrow of the
Monster" and his text, Isaiah, XIV, s:
"He Will swallow up death in victory"
DR.. Talmage said:
About 1853 Easter mornings have wax
ened the earth. In France for three cen
turies the almanacs made the year begin
at Easter, until Charles TX. made the
year begin at Jan. !. In the Tower Of
London there is royal pay roll OF Ed
ward l., on which there Is an entry OF
eighteen pence for four hundred colored
and pictured Easter eggs, with which the
people sported. In Russia, slaves were
fed and aims we're distributed on Easter.
Ecclesiastical cou uncils met at Pontus, at
Gaul, at R0Ne, ut Achaia TO decide the
particular day, and after a controversy,
more animated than gracious, decided it,
and now through all Christendom, IN
some way the first sunday after the full
moon which happens upon or next after
March 81, is filed with Easter rejoicing.
The Royal Court OF the Sab0eths is
made up OF ffty-two. Fifty-one are
princes In the royal household, but Easter
IS Queen. She wears richer diadem, and
sways a more jeweled sceptre, and in her
smile nations are 1rradlated. Unusually
Welcome this year because of the harsh
winter and the late spring, sne seems to
step out OF the snow bank rather than the
conservatory, come Out. .Of the North in
stead OF the South, out of the Arctic rather
than the tropics, dismOunting from the
icy equinox; but welcome this queenly
day, holding high up in her right hand
the wrenched-Of bolt OF Christ's sepul-
chre, and holding high up In her left hand
the key to all the cemeteries in Christen-
dom,
IL is an exciting thing to see an army
routed and flying. They run each other
down. They scatter everything valuable
in the track. Unwheeled artillery. HOOf
OF horses on breast OF wounded and dying
man. You have read of the French fall
ing back from Sedan, or Napoleon's track
OF ninety thousand corpses in the snow
banks OF Russia, or OF the retreat of our
own armies from Manassas, or of the five
kings tumbling over the rocks OF Bethoran
with their armies, while the hail-storms
OF heaven anu the swords of Joshua's
host struck them with their fury, In my
text Is worse discontinue. 1t
seems that black giant proposed to CON-
Quer the earth. He gathered for his host
all the aches and pains and malarias and
cancers and distempers and epidemics of
the ages. He marched them down, drill.
ing them in the northeast wind and
amid the slush OF tempests. He
threw up baTricades of grave-mound,
He pitched tent of charnel house. Some
OF the troops marched with slow tread,
commanded by consumptions, some in
douDle-quick, commanded oy pneumo-
Mas. Some he took by long besiegement
OF evil habit, and some by one stroke of
the battle-aX OF casualty. With bony
hand he pounded at the door of hospitals
and sick rooms, and won all the victories
in all the great battle fields of all the FIVE
continents. Forward march, the con-
querOr of cOnquerors, and all the gener-
ais and ommanders-ln-chief, and all
presidents and kings and sultans and
cZars drop under the feet of his war
b0b OuO OuA Ut HIS
antagonist was born. AS most of the
plaques and sioknesses and despotisms
come out of the East, 1t was appropriate
that the new conqueror should come out
Of the same quarter. Power is given II i'm
TO awaken all the fallen OF all the centu-
ries and OF all lands, and marshal them
against the black giant. Fields have
already been won, but the last day OF the
worlds existence will see the decisive
battle. When Christ shall load forth His
two brigades, the brigade OF the risen
dead and the brigade of the celestial host,
the black giant will fall back and the
brigade from the rIven sepulchres Will
take Hin from beneath and the brigade
OF descending immortals will take Him
from above, and death shall be swallowed
up in victory.
The old braggart that threatened the
conquest and demolition OF the planet has
lost mis- throne, has lost his sceptre, has
lost mis- palace, has lost bis prestige, and
the one word written over all the gates
OF maus0leum and catacomb and necrOp-
Oils, on oenotaph and sarcophagus, on
the lonely kahn OF the Arctic explorer
and on the catafalque OF great cathedral,
written in capitals OF azaea and calla
lily, written in musical cadence, written
IN dOXology of great assem blages, writ
ten on the sculptured door or the family
vault, is "victoy." Coronal word, en-
Dannered word, apOcalyptio word, chief
word OF the triumphal arch under which
cOnquerOrs return.
Victory! Word shouted at Culloden and
BalaklaVa and Blenheim, at Magiddo and
oollerInO, at Marathon, where the Ath-
enians drove back the Medes; at PoIc-
tiers, where Charles Martel broke the
ranks OF the Saracens; at Salamis, where
ThemistOcles in the great sea-tight con-
founded the Persians, and ut the door OF
the Eastern cavern OF chiseled rock.
where Christ came out through n recess
and thrOttled the King OF TerrOrs, and
put him back IN the niche from which the
celestial ConquerOr had just emerged.
Aha! when The jaws OF the Eastern mau So
leum took down tue black giant death
was swallowed up in victory" | pro-
claim the abolition OF death.
The old antagonist is driven back into
mythology with ali the lore about Stygian
Ferry and CharOn with oar and boat.
Melrose Abbey and KenilwOrth Castle are
no more In rulns than the sepulchre. We
shall have no more TO do With death than
we have with the clOak-room AZ a govern
Or's or presidents levee. We stop At such
cloak-rooIn and leave In charge ora SER
want our oVercoat, our oYershoes, our out
ward apparel, that we may not DO i'm
peded In the brilliant rouud of the dra W.
ing-room. Well, my friends. when we 20
out OF tais world We are going 10 a king's =
banquet, and tO reception OF mOnaTchs,
and al the door OF the tomb we leave the
cloak Of neen and Tho WrappinRa with